To Be Prudent Is to Be Partial By MICHELA WRONG   NAIROBI — Over the years I’ve come to view the Kenyan media with a mixture of respect and affection. Latitude The Campaign for Kenya. A series about the country’s first general election under its new Constitution. In the 1990s, I watched in awe as Kenyan photographers dodged Daniel arap Moi’s club-wielding riot police< http://articles. latimes.com/1997/oct/11/news/ mn-41722 >. When their colleagues in the newsroom exposed financial scandals, ranging from Goldenberg < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ business/4808618.stm > to Anglo Leasing < http://www.guardian.co.uk/ world/2004/jul/06/kenya. davidpallister >, I pasted their articles into my files.  Like the press pack anywhere, Kenyan journalists liked their beer and could wolf down a buffet in a heartbeat, and the odd brown envelope definitely changed hands. But they were brave. “The best press in Africa,” I told anyone who cared to li...

Lincoln' s Private War: The Trail of Blood   Lincoln' s Birthday gives us an appropriate opportunity to examine some deep American traditions which may also give us some unusual insights into the "principalitie s and powers" of Ephesians Chapter 6. Abraham Lincoln worked valiantly to prevent the Rothschild&# 39;s attempts to involve themselves in financing the Civil War.   Interestingly, it was the Czar of Russia who provided the needed assistance against the British and French, who were among the driving forces behind the secession of the South and her subsequent financing. Russia intervened by providing naval forces for the Union blockade of the South in European waters, and by letting both countries know that if they attempted to join the Confederacy with military forces, they would also have to go to war with Russia. The Rothschild interests did succeed, through their agent Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, to force a bill (the National Banking Ac...